Let's take a minute and talk about expectations. I'm the kind of person who likes to know from the get-go where we're going. What's the End Game? Where's our destination? This very fact is probably the one that held me back from dusting off the old blog to start writing again. The first blog I began was done so with the intent to keep family and friends abreast of all of the exciting things I was up to while living 2000 miles away from home in Arizona. It had a point. A purpose.
This space right here? I'm not sure what its point or purpose is. And I suppose it doesn't need to have one. That is, outside of a creative space for me to ramble on to a captive audience. The risk that we run on this here path is this: blogs are, at their core, inherently narcissistic. If an author isn't careful, a blog is likely to end up being all "mememememememememe" all day every day. And while I have a small amount of narcism in me, that's not entirely who I am.
And, because I've put on Facebook that I've started writing again, out of fear of losing friends and admirers, I'm limited in some of the content I can write about. You can all let out a sigh of relief that I probably (mostly likely, I'll try really hard) won't write about you, at least not in a negative light. Yes, you. You're welcome.
Obviously there will be hilarious tales from Room 102. Obviously I'll write about the silly things that happen to me. I'll probably write about some serious stuff from time to time; you know, weigh in as I see fit.
But other than that, I don't really have an End Game. I'm going to try to enjoy the journey and see where it takes us. I'm also going to try to avoid only talking about myself. Because frankly, that's boring. Feel free to add into the comments what you're hoping to get out of this as a reader. Anything in particular you want to hear? Thanks for hopping along on this adventure!
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